WeatherTech Sportscar Championship

It was a case of the perfect track for the perfect car Saturday at Lime Rock Park as the Porsche GT Team turned the marque's 450th North American pole position into the first international win for the new mid-engine Porsche 911 RSR. Patrick Pilet and Dirk Werner took the victory in the No. 911 Porsche ahead of teammates Laurens Vanthoor and Gimmi Bruni in the No. 912 to complete a 1-2 for the COR...

Heat and clouds greeted IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT teams for late afternoon qualifying at Lime Rock Park, and when it was over, Gimmi Bruni and the Porsche GT Team went fastest overall while setting the field for Saturday's 2h40m Northeast Grand Prix. The Italian, who joined the German manufacturer after years of representing Ferrari, took the first pole this season for the No. ...

The opening practice session for Saturday's Northeast Grand Prix IMSA event at Lime Rock had a hint of promise from Porsche as Laurens Vanthoor held early command during the 60-minute outing, but Ford made sure its presence was felt as the Blue Oval shot to the top with a 1-2 on the final time sheet. The pair of Ford Chip Ganassi Racing GTs, led by Dirk Muller in the No. 66 (51.077s) and Ryan Bri...

The easiest way to appreciate something as unique as IMSA's Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park comes from speaking with those who are relatively new to the experience. Full-time GT specialists are accustomed to the crazy celebration of GT racing where IMSA's factory-rich GT Le Mans class, mixed with Pro-Am GT Daytona teams, collide in a tornado at the Connecticut bullring. But take a few step...

Mazda Motorsports director John Doonan is riding a sustained high after Tuesday's surprise change of direction for the brand's IMSA Prototype project. The signing of Joest Racing, which serves as its most ambitious move to date, has led to an influx of congratulatory messages. "The response has been overwhelming and overwhelmingly positive," Doonan told RACER. "Internally, from our leadership, ou...

For the first two days of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on July 7-9, the Porsche GT Team established itself as the team to beat in the GT Le Mans (GTLM) class. The team's pair of Porsche 911 RSR racecars â which were brand new at the start of the season and now feature a configuration that puts the engine in front of the rear axle â went 1-2 ...

Team Penske, Acura, Honda Performance Development and chassis supplier ORECA will commence testing of the new ARX-05 Daytona Prototype international at the end of the month in France. "The initial test will actually occur at the end of this month in Europe over at Paul Ricard," Team Penske president Tim Cindric told RACER. "And then the car will be shipped across to the U.S. and hopefully we'll b...

The last 30 minutes of IMSA's visit to Canadian Tire Motorsports Park could go down as one of the craziest finishes seen since the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship launched in 2014. The late arrivals of a blown engine, rain, wet or dry tire strategy, a failed overtaking maneuver, more rain and a flipped car threw the finish into a wild tailspin that helped Dane Cameron and Eric Curran to earn a...

Temperatures were slightly cooler to provide near ideal conditions for in qualifying for the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. And Ricky Taylor made the most of them to take the pole. After winning the drag race out of the pits for the Prototype class' 15-minute qualifying session and after working his Continental tires up to temperature, Taylor got the ball rolling ...

The JDC-Miller Motorsports ORECA LMP2 took a turn at the front in Saturday morning's third practice session for the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, but the competition remained tight as just half a second covered the top six cars in the Prototype class. The 1m09.142s lap set by Stephen Simpson in the No. 85 ORECA he shares with Misha Goikhberg was set early in the ...

Demonstrations of speed by Ryan Dalziel in the No. 2 Nissan Onroak DPi (1m08.994s) and crashing continued into the second IMSA practice session at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park as two red flags paused the action. The Scot's quick lap was shadowed by Ricky Taylor in the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R (+0.059s) and the sister No. 22 Nissan driven by Pipo Derani (+0.099s), but only one...

A familiar car returned to the top of IMSA's timing and scoring system on Friday during opening practice for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's visit to Canadian Tire Motorsports Park as Wayne Taylor Racing's No. 10 Cadillac DPi-V.R led the field. Jordan Taylor (1m09.443s) was nearly matched by Ryan Dalziel in the No. 2 Tequila Patron ESM Nissan Onroak DPi (+0.007s) and Jonathan Bomarito in...

Team Penske president Tim Cindric is looking forward to confirming one of the worst-kept secrets in the IMSA paddock. As RACER first revealed in August 2016, an alliance between Roger Penske and Honda to field a Daytona Prototype international has now been brewing for almost a year, and the wraps should come off the relationship next month around the Monterey Classic Car Week and its famed Pebble...